Groove on

The answer

DIG

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DIG answer page.

Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DIG

Every other clue in this collection answered by DIG, most used first.

• Use a shovel - used 98 times, most recently in 2026
• Archaeological site - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Use a spade - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Excavate - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
• Really enjoy - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Cutting remark - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Snide remark - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Like - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Be into - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Really like - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "Understand?" - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
• Archaeology site - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Archeological site - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Archaeological excavation - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Archaeologist's project - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Can you ___ it? - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Unkind remark - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Delve. - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Groove - RUT, used 92 times
• Deep groove - RUT, used 33 times
• "How Stella Got ___ Groove Back" - HER, used 21 times
• Road groove - RUT, used 13 times
• Groove in a dirt road - RUT, used 11 times
• Dirt road groove - RUT, used 6 times

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